Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm the exclusion grounds are absent. The contracting authority excludes bidders convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; offences related to employing a foreign national staying illegally or violating the conditions for employing a foreign national in Estonia, including paying less than the statutory wage; and offences related to illegal use of child labour or human trafficking. Exclusion also applies if the bidder has tax, duty or environmental charge arrears, or tax or social security contribution arrears in its country of establishment, or if contract award would breach an international sanction or a Government of the Republic sanction. The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations, bankruptcy or liquidation, serious professional misconduct, local tax arrears, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, prior involvement in preparing the procurement, serious or repeated breach of previous public contracts, false information, attempts to influence the contracting authority or obtain confidential information, tax offences, or if the bidder is otherwise not entitled to submit a tender.